Large Assembly Mode
Large Assembly Mode is a collection of system settings that improves
the performance of assemblies. You can turn on Large Assembly Mode at
any time, or you can set a threshold for the number of components, and
have Large Assembly Mode turn on automatically when that threshold is
reached.
While using the Open dialog
box to open an assembly whose number of components exceeds the specified
threshold, you can specify whether or not to activate Large Assembly Mode
by selecting or clearing Large Assembly
Mode.
You specify the threshold on the Assemblies
page in System Options. In addition,
you can specify the following Large Assembly Mode options there. See Assemblies
Options for details.
Do not save auto
recover info
Hide all planes,
axes, sketches, curves, annotations, etc.
Do not display
edges in shaded mode
Suspend automatic rebuild
To turn on Large Assembly Mode:
Click Large
Assembly Mode (Assembly toolbar) or Tools,
Large Assembly Mode.
Large Assembly
Mode appears on the status
bar.
To turn off Large Assembly Mode:
Click to clear Large
Assembly Mode (Assembly toolbar) or Tools,
Large Assembly Mode.
When Large Assembly Mode is on, the following options become unavailable
(grayed out) on their respective System
Options page or toolbar, and are automatically set as described
below. When Large Assembly Mode is turned off, the options return to their
previous settings.
System Options page
or
Toolbar |
Option |
Status when
Large Assembly Mode is on |
Drawings |
Show contents while dragging drawing view |
Off. Only the view boundary
is shown while dragging a drawing view. |
Smooth dynamic motion of drawing views |
Off. Dynamic operations to drawings,
such as panning and zooming, do not display smoothly. |
Automatically hide components on view creation |
On. Any components of an assembly
not visible in a new drawing view are hidden and listed on the Hide/Show
Components tab of the Drawing
View Properties dialog box. |
Drawings
- Display Style |
Display style for new views |
Hidden lines removed is set
as the default display style for new views. |
Display quality for new views |
Draft
quality. Only minimum model information is loaded into memory.
Some edges may appear to be missing, and print quality may be slightly
degraded. |
Display/Selection |
Dynamic highlight from graphics view |
Off. Model faces, edges, and
vertices are not
highlighted when you move the pointer over a sketch, model, or drawing. |
Anti-alias edges |
Off. Jagged edges in Shaded
With Edges, Wireframe,
Hidden Lines Removed, and Hidden Lines Visible modes are not
smoothed out. |
Assembly transparency for in context edit |
Maintain assembly transparency.
Components not being edited retain their individual transparency settings. |
FeatureManager |
Dynamic highlight |
Off. The geometry in the graphics
area (edges, faces, planes, axes, and so on) is not
highlighted when the pointer passes over the item in the FeatureManager
design tree. |
Performance |
Transparency |
High quality for normal view mode.
While the part or assembly is not moving or rotating, the transparency
is high quality. When moved or rotated with the pan or rotate tools, the
application switches to low-quality transparency, enabling you to rotate
the model faster. |
Curvature generation |
Only on demand. Initial curvature
display is slower, but uses less memory. |
Level of detail |
Minimum. The level of detail
is minimal during dynamic view operations (zoom, pan, and rotate) in assemblies,
multi-body parts, and draft views in drawings. |
Check out-of-date lightweight components |
Don't Check. Loads assemblies
without checking for out-of-date lightweight components. |
Update mass properties while saving document |
Off. Does not recalculate the
mass properties on save. The next time you access the mass properties,
the system will need to recalculate them. |
View
toolbar and menu |
Shadows in Shaded Mode |
Off. |
RealView
Graphics |
Off. |
Related Topics
AssemblyXpert
Large
Assembly Settings
Simplifying
Large Assemblies
Simplified
Representations of Assemblies
Suspending
Automatic Rebuilds